Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:19:48 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> To: Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IA64booting was:Re: Dangerously Dedicated Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011222216090.1193-100000@vespa.orem.iserver.com> In-Reply-To: <004001c05398$7fdb8080$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de>
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> > For the IA64 no dd will work at all, as a valid MBR is a strict requirement. When I first heard this I about threw up. It makes me sick. And a fat32 partition is required for booting too. blech. As a co-worker is fond of saying, 'All the problems with the pc-architecture can be traced back one way or another to weird bios and bios-compatability problems...' The ONE good thing about the Itanic :) and it's booting specification is that there _IS_ a specification, that specfies exactly what to do. Thus, perhaps there will be a bit more uniformity in hardware design. Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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